Category Archives: HiTech

Google has released a free app for Android called Read Along, designed to improve reading skills in children. At the moment it is available for download in 180 countries. The app contains a Read Along collection of stories of different lengths and on different topics and based on them teaching kids how to read and pronounce words. It gives you visual and audio cues. Young reader meets a virtual assistant of Diya with voice recognition that can determine when a student is trying to say the word or phrase, and […]

Tomorrow in Ukraine will come to a sudden cold, which dramatically bring down the temperature by 10-15 degrees. Meteorologists recommend to be prepared for wet snow and Blizzard, according to Диалог.UA. “Poland, Belarus, Baltic countries, Germany, which will be in the area of the front is already short night, first surprised winter picture outside the window. Adverse weather will increase storm gusts the North-West wind. In the Northern regions of Ukraine, in the center, and secondly, half of the day in the South, rain is expected. In the zone of […]

Despite the gradual easing of restrictive measures in Ukraine, local authorities do not hasten to relax and prepare for the worst, it is reported Диалог.UA. So, yesterday in the Telegram-channel “h@@vy Kiev” has a video as the capital drives a huge truck with lots of coffins on Board. He got caught passengers of a car passing by: people “joking” that the graves, along with foodstuffs “became the main popular spring product” At the moment it is not clear where exactly were the coffins and what kind of funeral service in […]

Today in the river took place to protest “the Dnieper will resist”: the supporters of a unified Ukraine gathered near the cultural center MediaProstir. The video was on the page in “Facebook” the former people’s Deputy Andrey Denisenko, reports Диалог.UA. People gathered near the center closer to 11 a.m., also at the place were police officers. The latter have secured the building perimeter and not let the activists. In turn, people began near the entrance to the center, flags and picked up the posters with the inscription “Dnepr will resist”. […]

A day in Russia revealed 11 656 new cases of coronavirus, the total number of patients with COVID-19 in the Russian Federation is 221 344. Thus, Russia took the third place in the world in number of detected cases, while the number of deaths from СOVID-19 the country is at the 18th place. According to Rospotrebnadzor, in Russia made more than 5.6 million tests for coronavirus. AGN “Moscow” © Sophia Sadurska According to information oberstab the day in Russia was found 11 656 new cases of coronavirus. 46% identified had […]

Russian leader Vladimir Putin in his address to the Russians prior to the meeting on the epidemiological situation in Russia noted the physicians experience in the fight against coronavirus. Reuters “Doctors now know about the disease a lot more than at the beginning of the epidemic, they have their own experience and practice of foreign colleagues. Developed new methods of treatment using efficient vehicles, the production of which we have also significantly increased”, — Putin said. He noted that, as shown by international experience, the unavailability and overload health systems […]

The Minister of health of Tula region Alexey Erk, cases of coronavirus infection in late April, received a second negative test, which confirmed his recovery. © Ministry of health, Tula region “On 10 may, the Minister of health Alexey Erk received a second negative for the coronavirus. He recovered,” — said the press service of the government in social network “Vkontakte”. It specified that the disease of the head of the regional Ministry of health took place without clinical manifestations, Erk continued to operate in remote mode. In the Tula […]

In Finland summed up the results of the biggest experiment with the payment of an unconditional basic income to citizens, which was conducted in 2017-2018. The experiment was launched in November 2017, and was attended by 2,000 randomly selected unemployed persons. Important point – it was impossible to refuse, the event had the force of law. Each of them received monthly 560 euros without any conditions, the organizers of the experiment did not require reporting and do not track what the money was spent. But they tried to involve in […]

To date, the size of the items that can be printed on a 3D printer, limited by the size of the 3D printer (unless you design complex assemblies). Therefore, when the need arises to print a large object – for example, for aerospace industry – the manufacturer is forced to bond, weld or glue a variety of small parts. Of course, engineers around the world are looking for ways to solve this problem. One of them was developed at the University of San Diego (USA) – scientists suggest using the […]

Nature – inexhaustible source of unique engineering solutions, what once again proved an international group of scientists, led by Professor Richard Bompe from the Royal veterinary College in London. They studied the mechanism of touch of the males of the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, which helped them to recreate the ability of an insect to detect obstacles with the help of air flow. Researchers primarily interested in how these insects Orient themselves in pitch darkness. As it turned out, this is possible thanks to the so-called mechanochemically – the ability to […]